Quotes about Coexistence

He who cherishes the value of cultures cannot fail to be a pacifist.

Living at peace with everyone...is not an option, it's an obligation.

Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been tallied.

The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

Kindness, quite simply, is the rent we must pay for the space we occupy on this planet.

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

Christianity entails doctrines that increase the probability of the coexistence of God and suffering.

I have avoided giving offence to intelligent Arabs, who have pressed me, asking if I believed in Mohamad by saying, "No I do not: I am a child of Jesus bin Miriam," avoiding anything offensive in my tone, and often adding that Mohamad found their forefathers bowing down to trees and stones, and did good to them by forbidding idolatry, and teaching the worship of the only One God. This, they all know, and it pleases them to have it recognised.

If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we should still need tanks and generals?

My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians.

You will not pit one word of God against another word of God.